The Associated Press and fair use on the Web

by billso on Sunday, 15 June 2008

So the Asso­ci­ated Press thinks they can stop web sites from link­ing to AP sto­ries. Sounds like an overea­ger lawyer dug a hole for them­selves, or just for­got about the fair use doc­trine. After all, the AP is a major sup­plier of news con­tent to Google, Yahoo, CNN, and almost every major news­pa­per in the United States.

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